On 10/2/2011 2:17 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Kirk Wallace wrote: >> Well I just tried the same PCI card and Pluto in my office PC and it >> worked fine. I had to unload a module because I got a device busy error, >> but basically it work as expected. >> >> The office system is 10.04 EMC2 2.4.3, the mill is 8.04 EMC 2.3.? >> > Yup! 2.3 didn't have Jeff Epler's fix for the parallel port sharing > with Linux, and didn't > look up the upper address range for the port from the BIOS. 10.04 with the > later EMC, 2.4.?? has this, and so it finds out that the ECR is not at > the standard 0x402 > offset. >> I have no idea if any of the above is significant. I suppose I should >> try 10.04/2.4.3 on my mill. I tried testing another KM-400 motherboard, >> the same as the mill, but had the same problem. >> > Interrupts are not used, so that doesn't matter. But, I suspect the > 10.04 and newer EMC > will make it work on the mill. > > Jon > So, can I infer from all this that what the PCI documents refer to as bus enumeration has at the heart of our difficulties rather than any of the obscure and evil stuff I conjectured last night?
That would be nice, and would be in keeping with the fact that these cards do seem to work on different motherboards when controlled by MS Windows, which is aided by the information provided by their vendors in their driver .inf files. Thanks for nailing down the SIIG card, Jon. I've got one reserved for pickup tomorrow. It isn't an absolute necessity for me, but I like to protect the extra measure of protection against screw-ups with I/O to the motherboard from real-world equipment. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
